By Chris Ziegler February 11, 2010

Cold Cave is ex-hardcore musician Wes Eisold, who started writing Manchester 79-style synth pop by himself in a giant old house full of taxidermied grizzly heads and photos of genitals pirated off Craigslist. Youll find some of that in his music, tooanimal, man and death in uneasy relation on songs such as The Laurels of Erotomania and Double Lives In Single Beds, which trade on a sort of dissipated Ballard/Bowie/Bryan Ferry sexuality in which the lighting is either harsh or dim and the chance for connection comes with an equivalent risk of electrocution. If not love, theres at least longing in these songslike Billy Bragg once asked, is it wrong to wish on space... More >>>